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Pot Smoking Daddies are so Cute and Funny!
I thought I would post my letter to GQ here since it will probably never see print ( Read more... ) -
Morbid Curiosity
As I start work on my paper about EmilyDickinson's Puritan background and her links to the heritage of thecaptivity narrative through her masochistic obsession with prolongedpain, I have been running into Gothic imagery of a macabre all day.
First a taste of Dickinson:
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'Twas like a Maelstrom, with a notch,
That nearer, every Day,
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Its ribs are ceiling beams Its guts are carpeting I guess we have some time to kill ...
I know Spot Buck went over in a big way (although many said it was too easy to spot me in a crowd - Is it my fault I'm one of a kind?), but I wanted to post a cohesive run down of our awesome trip to Nashvegas last Thursday and the Decemberist love that ensued.
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A Great Day in History (via Does Today Suck?)
1300 - Dante ascends into the Inferno in the Divine Comedy - COOL
1634 - The first settlers arrive in Maryland - COOL
1807 - The Slave Trade Act abolishes the slave trade in the UK - GOOD
Buck ignores homework by reading Does Today Suck? - BAD -
First Day Back
Well, I thought the first day back after my wonderful break went pretty well. My classes had fun hacking and slashing their annotations, got to see the english crew (though I saw most of them over the weekend), read 120 pages of Winthrop Jordan for my independent study (learned about the race battle of penis sizes and how the chart goes - Native ( Read more... )
